Abandoned Girl by Lexie WinstonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Family Tensions
I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.
Harlow has a difficult past. She’s just qualified as a vet and is just about to decide where she’s going to practice when her junkie mother dies. Harlow has lived with a wealthy family since she was quite young and grown up with the daughter being treated the same by the family, but not by outsiders. Her solace was in the animals she would rescue and the horses that the family trained for movie stunts.
On the death of her mother, Harlow finally discovers who her father is, after her mother always refused to tell her. It turned out to be a friend of her foster family, and she already knew her biological grandparents from visits to her foster family's home. She is persuaded to come and visit the father she never knew and get to know him and his 7 adopted children. She reluctantly agrees though her experience of wealthy people is not good. That reluctance is prescient.
I really liked Harlow. She’s down to earth, she’s struggled with her mother and the experiences she had with her, but she has always appreciated her foster family’s love and support. She still doesn’t truly see herself as one of the family though. She has worked exceptionally hard to qualify early, getting herself ahead by two years by taking college classes during the final two years of high school. I like that she just keeps on going, no matter what happens, she keeps getting up in the morning.
It is the first book in the series and it does end without a HEA or even a HFN. However, it’s not an awful cliffhanger. I can’t wait for the next book though!
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